Re: Line Drawing and Unicode

[William McBrine]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, I wrote:

> My experience (with Ubuntu at least) is that, in fact, you can't. However, 
> I _can_ link to ncursesw and still use the narrow functions, and it works 
> correctly then (within the limits of the console's limited character set), 
> as long as I've called setlocale().

P.S. To clarify, with _either_ the wide or narrow library, when the 
console is in Unicode mode, you have to call setlocale() to get anything 
(even pluses and minuses). Otherwise you just get garbage.

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William McBrine <address@hidden>